Politics

I hardly ever mention politics in this blog, but politics were very much on the agenda in the pub the other night. Unusually, when No Longer Grim Jim and the Tall Thin One are in attendance, Natalie Portman was only mentioned twice throughout the whole evening. Instead, there were detailed discussions about how disasterous or otherwise it would be if the Referendum results in an independent Scotland.

The conclusion reached was that the process would be well-managed, and that very little would actually change in the years immediately following independence, apart from property prices almost certainly falling in a time of uncertainty. Economically, the situation would either be a little better, or a little worse, but not by any great degree.

This is very worrying for me, because it would be after about five years that things would potentially start to go wrong socially. If little changes, then people will start to ask “Why are we not doing better?” And then we start to get into a blame culture.

“It’s the fault of the English!” This will be the likely response, and such a thing has it’s inevitable consequences.

History shows us that this sort of thing – i.e. blaming someone else – happens almost every time in similar circumstances. And that is when things turn nasty.

My friend D was at a public meeting the other week. He said that there was a lot of heckling, and that the hecklers made it impossible to hear both sides of the arguments. Well, that’s not good, but it’s also not that bad. However, he also said that the hecklers very aggressively turned on anyone who did not support independence. “Call yourself Scottish! You should be ashamed of yourself”. Though he didn’t voice any opinions at the meeting, D felt extremely intimidated. He told me, “That’s what Jews must have felt like in 1930s Germany”

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9 comments on “Politics”

Fabulous to hear that the evil bourgeois are comparing themselves with the Jews in 1930s Germany!! There’s one Tory MP in this country, so why are they ruling us?? I’m looking forward to a mass migration of forelock tuggers after the revolution. That should drop the property prices which are far too high anyway!! Hotboy

Not sure you said your chum D was bourgeois, but clearly when there are no more Englanders to blame, the next in the firing line will be the middle classes because they speak a bit like the English. Then once the bourgeoisie have been divested and deported, the serious slaughter can start between tims and prods.

Michael Foot on the evil bourgeois. You probably don’t like Michael Foot because the petit bourgeois have always craved favour from those they deferred to in the great chain of priviledge which rested as always on the subjugation of working class people. Scotland is politically socially democratic and we want nothing to do with rule from England by these posh public school boys!
“We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves,” Foot said during the 1983 campaign.
“That is our only certain good and great purpose on Earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer ‘To hell with them.’ The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.”

Au contraire!! Where is the progressive element? Is is with you God Save the Queen people? And what kind of a world do these posh public schoolboy right wing fanatics want? Certainly not the kind of fascist regime I want any part of!! They’re even today demanding to be able to read all electronic communications. Hotboy

Oh!? Well, we’ll get rid of all those stupid titles like Lord and Lady Muck. We’ll nationalise the land so it’s now all owned by such as David Cameron’s wife. We’ll bring in profit sharing for capitalist enterprises. We’ll get rid of the nuclear weapons. We’ll bring in a decent inheritance tax so that when you make a fortune out of this society, you give it back when you snuff it. It’ll be great!! Exciting! Something happening. Great!!! Hotboy p.s. Since the Taliban say they’ll allow creekit to flourish (a game for bullies and sadists!!), we’ll have to ban that!!